RE: Compuware Vantage Products

We just installed AppVantage at our site a couple months ago and I went =
through the 3 day training for kicks. It seems like a pretty useful =
product. You install agents throughout your server chain. The product =
provides you with a management console that allows you to time =
transactions end-to-end throughout the system. You will know exactly =
where the time is being spent per transaction. We have remote sites =
that have a lot of lag time loading our pages and we plan on sending =
somebody out there with a laptop to end the fingerpointing once and for =
all.

Management is exploring an enterprise solution to performance
management. Looks like they're heading in the direction of Compuware's
Vantage suite of products: ServerVantage, NetworkVantage, and
ApplicationVantage. A big focus was on troubleshooting performance of
our Oracle applications and I noticed all the metrics were in statspack
... anyone have any experience with this set of products?